Techniques and Skills

Helping you fly better with expert advice

How to: Get a Flying Start

Do you nail your launches every time? Felix Wölk has some top tips to help make every take-off a perfect one
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Photo: Jacques-Paul Stefani

Top Tips for Buying a Glider

When it comes time to buy a new glider, be honest with yourself, listen to those feelings –that's the only thing that matters.
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launching from dirt road

How to: Fly by wire

Bastienne Wentzel explains how to get in the air from a standing start on the ground by being towed by a winch
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Thinking Differently: ‘You do you’

The third in a five-part series exploring the philosophy and approach of Julien Garcia, the French team paragliding coach
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side collapse

When tucking-in really matters

If you spend long enough teaching SIV, instructors from different countries will boil down the pilot skills needed to the same things
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Jocky Sanderson using the radio

How to use your paragliding radio – properly

There is a right way – and lots of wrong ways – to communicate in the air. Here are some top tips on how to manage your radio
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The long game with Gavin McClurg

The Long Game: Forbidden Fruit

One pilot's journey from 'Mr Average' to competition winner, because let's face it being average just sucks
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Baptiste Lambert

Masterclass: How to fly fast with Baptiste Lambert

How can we learn to fly efficiently and fast and therefore further? France’s Baptiste Lambert has some brilliant advice
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Go with the flow

Go with the flow

With the new generation of gliders and harnesses SIV and safety training needs to evolve, says veteran SIV instructor Heli Schrempf. Melanie Weber, Adi Geisegger and Michi Maurer went along for the ride.
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Thinking Differently: Think like a kid

The second in a five-part series exploring the philosophy and approach of Julien Garcia, the French team paragliding coach
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